Vienna 1683: Christian Europe Repels the Ottomans (Campaign)

Vienna 1683: Christian Europe Repels the Ottomans (Campaign)
by Simon Millar

Vienna 1683: Christian Europe Repels the Ottomans (Campaign)
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Author: Simon Millar
Illustrator: Peter Dennis
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-19
ISBN: 1846032318
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

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Book Review: The Book presents very well the victory of the expedition force of army of King Sobieski's Poland over turks at Vienna 1683
Summary: 5 Stars

Destroing, literally, turkich mitary surroudning Vienna, on urgent request of the Pope send to polish King Jan Sobieski , whilst the other european contries did almost nothing in that highly dramatic situation of Vienna, cannot be overestimated in respect of saving of european civilisation from barbarism. Yet, nor Austria, nor Pope, nobody, offered Poland some financial compensation of the costs of the organizing the expeditionary force, and Poland's economy soon had been ruined by that, and ... Sweeden used the moment to attack Poland from the North and occupy it. Nobody helped Poland.
Wiktor Nowicki, a polish-american.

Summary of Vienna 1683: Christian Europe Repels the Ottomans (Campaign)

The capture of the Hapsburg city of Vienna was a major strategic aspiration for the Islamic Ottoman Empire, desperate for the control that the city exercised over the Danube and the overland trade routes between southern and northern Europe. In July 1683 Sultan Mehmet IV proclaimed a jihad and the Turkish grand vizier, Kara Mustafa Pasha, laid siege to the city with an army of 150,000 men.

In September a relieving force arrived under Polish command and joined up with the defenders to drive the Turks away. The main focus of this book is the final 15-hour battle for Vienna, which climaxed with a massive charge by three divisions of Polish winged hussars. This hard-won victory marked the beginning of the decline of the Islamic Ottoman Empire, which was never to threaten central Europe again.

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